User: Val314

Re:A bit OT

On: A Power Users Look at Linux on the Mac

> It's one of the reasons why Apple notebooks are so highly prized.

umm... the reason i got a 12" iBook G4 (here in Austria) was because it was the cheapest (good) 12" Notebook with decent Battery power i could find.
there are tons of cheaper 14-15" x86 Notebooks available but not 12"...

the cheapes 12" x86 Notebook i could find was an IBM, but it hat half the ram, a slower Video Card and costs 200 more than the iBook. (at least here in Austria)

Xcode 1.1 Is out too

On: Mac OS X 10.3.2 Update available

downloading it now from Software Update

Re:And Office Update process is broken.

On: Microsoft Issues Five New Security Warnings

the new "Windows"Update V5 (Beta starts soon) has support for Office, Exchange and SQL Server too

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=13414&catego ry=main

Re:MS could take control of Linux

On: META Predicts Linux Software From Microsoft in 2004

they have allready... the moved the X to the end and added a "P" ;)

SCNR

[OT] Babylon 5

On: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine DVD Details Announced

btw: the german (with a full english audio track) Babylon 5 Code 2 DVD is very cheap (30 ) so if your player supports PAL and Code 2 you may want to consider the Cheaper Code 2 DVD. (but Episode 8 has some errors (the 4:3 cgi is scaled to 16:9 so it doesnt look that good))

Re:New spam...

On: The Economics of Spam

sure they shouldnt, but my ISP (Cable Modem with static IPs) didnt block Ports 137-139 some years ago and since noone secures their Windows boxes all were in a large Workgroup (noone changed the name from the default) and everyone could just see all drives from everyone else.

I'm really happy that they blocked these ports very soon.

Re:Java performance...

On: PPC Linux vs. Mac OS X Server: Linux Edges Out

just to give you something to comare the results
my Athlon 1.2 GHz has this results (with Sun's Java 1.4.1)

SciMark 2.0a

Composite Score: 132.16079262416687
FFT (1024): 54.698967180648516
SOR (100x100): 260.68114426967077
Monte Carlo : 23.431865250772468
Sparse matmult (N=1000, nz=5000): 124.40394539472439
LU (100x100): 197.58804102501819

java.vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
java.version: 1.4.1
os.arch: x86
os.name: Windows XP
os.version: 5.1

Re:If you can see this press OK

On: Gnarly Error Messages

sounds like whats happening after you change the resolution. if you can see the everything press ok, or else cancel (or press Esc or just wait 15 sec)

one page version

On: New Small Form Factor PC Reviewed

here

Re:Obligatory Anti-WineX post

On: TransGaming Ports 3 Kohan Titles to Linux

of course i cant speak for all others, but i'd really consider switching to Linux when all (most) of my Windows Apps run under linux (i dont really care if they are native Linux apps or Win32 running with Wine/whatever).

i've just tried Mandrake Linux and have to say i begin to like it, but the since i cant just throw away all my Win32 apps i cant switch to Linux (or something else that doesnt run Win32 apps)

BTW: it would be great if i could not only run Win32 apps on linux, but all the nice Drivers too.

Re:I switched to Mozilla..

On: No Pop-up Blocking in Netscape 7.0

if you want a (freeware) Pop Up blocker (and Tabs) in IE, you could try Crazy Browser

Re:New name / mascot needed.

On: Godzilla Getting Ready to Stomp Mozilla?

yeah, but Lucas could sue because Mos Aic just sounds like Mos Espa ;)

Mod Chips for PCs

On: Microsoft's 'Palladium' Privacy/DRM Scheme

so we all will be installing Mod Chips in our PCs in 2 Years.

Re:Are international domain names even necessary?

On: Spoofing URLs With Unicode

but how can you (or a avarage user) send an email to say müller@müller.de using an english keyboard?

i think we should stick to ASCII

This gives a new meanig to...

On: MMORPGs Matrix and Star Wars

hacking into the matrix ;)

Re:Host file.

On: XP, Phone Home

tried it on XP Pro.
there was no difference. search worked without a problem.

Re:X-Windows?

On: Questions over the Windows Trademark

my winXP' Winver.exe says:

"Copyright 1985-2001" in the Picture
and
"Copyright 1981-2001" in the Text below...
so 1983 should be OK ;)

CD Key?

On: Blizzard Rains on Bnetd Project

Blizzards game sends the CD Key to the battle.net server, doesn't it? i dont think i want my CD Key transmitted to a server i cant trust/dont know.

Re:The VIA SouthBridge and IBM 75GXP Connection

On: Slashback: Drives, Errors, Copyright

I had an IBM GXP75 with 40 GB running on a Via KT133A Board (MSI K7T Turbo) and i had a vew weeks ago a bad sector on it. The sound it made was like you described...
i had it for about a year or so, and i really hope that my new 60 GB IBM HD will do better